Comment by rnbw

I have some practical questions about this item (seeing that it's account bound):

Will this item be consumed when you use it, like with the shoulder enchants? Or will you know how to ride the mount and will the item persist, like with some of the account bound companion pets)?

Does this item have any relationship to the guild or guild repution or guild achievement? That is, if you buy this item and then leave the guild, will you still have the item, or will it be removed/unusable?

What is the speed of this mount? I assume it scales automatically with riding skill?

What is the price? Is it gold, is it Emblems of Justice? If it's gold, does it "disappear" like with NPC purchases, or is it contributed to the guild bank somehow?

One interesting point about the first question about reusability is when you leave the guild, you obviously won't be able to buy this any more (or at least I assume you can't). So if it's a one-time use only you might want to buy multiple for any future alts and in the case you might not be in the guild in the future. If it's reusable (like certain companion pets), then buying 1 for all your current and future alts is enough.

Comment by Nulgar

Likely consumed when used (confirmed)Mounts are account-wide now, anyway

I think they mentioned that major rewards also require a certain guild reputation, some items already list such a requirement, I'd say this one will receive one as well, though maybe only to buy, not to use, so you can buy it on your main for your alts within the same guild (confirmed)

As I speculated above (already downrated, sigh) the level requirement implies it will start at 60%, and auto-levels when you learn Journeyman Riding(confirmed)

A price that goes to the guild bank is technically no price, as an officer could give you that money back, so I'd say at most a certain percentage goes to the guild bank, the rest behaves like a normal NPC purchase. (confirmed, just a gold prize)

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Comment by boombx123

no other faction

Comment by Siromo

Rewarded when your guild reaches level 25 (Horde side)

Comment by lynchsta

This is one kickbutt looking ground mount. Unfortunately, how often is anyone going to be using a ground mount over L60? I know that I won't be very often other than simply posturing with it occasionally. Yes I'll definitely get one, but I just don't see it being terribly useful.

Comment by Stalyn

THIS.. IS GOING TO BE &*!@ING. AWESOME.

Comment by Stalyn

THIS.. IS GOING TO BE *!@#ING. AWESOME.

Comment by esbeon

its....... a.......... friggin........ SCORPION!

thank you blizzard. thank you so much.

Comment by Juxtaposed

Considering so far all BoA non-heirloom items do not get consumed upon using (pets thus far), there is a good chance the item will be multi-use.

Comment by gordonplayer

Lion or scorpion mount?

Oh, how i'm glad i'm horde.

*Blizz should've introduced it when we still use ground mounts... but i'll use in every opportunity =]

Comment by DramaOfficer

Actually, you can't fly everywhere in Azeroth, sure, Durotar or Eastern Plaguelands, but not in Orgrimarr or Stormwind, you'll just be on your Flying Mount as a Ground Mount.

Comment by Hmmster

Well, you can in the beta.

Comment by Tigerarmy666

So if you got kicked from your guild you would lose this?

......

"Yes G'massa no G'massa very good G'massa can I shine your shoes now or later? "

Comment by Spinnacer

I've played on and off since vanilla, never really been impressed by mounts and stuff but...OH MY GOD, IT'S SO COOL.

Alliance will be so damn jelly! Haha.

Comment by Orangutan

The ONLY change I would make is to have a dead gnome skewered on the stinger. :D

Comment by JustAnt

Don't jump from high places with this mount, because the stinger might accidentally impale you, resulting in a swift but painfull death!

Comment by Arrd

Considering that the stinger is pointed right at your back, I have to wonder who is in charge the ridder or the ridden?

Comment by Apocalite

Are you freaking serious! SWEET!

Comment by fenoglio

Well, the scorpion's poison is less deadly the bigger the scorpion, so we might get a weee bit of swelling, as this thing is @#$%ING HUGE

Comment by DanteSlayer

Hehe... Crab.

Comment by MozambizZz

OMG it will be inposible to get that mount ....

Comment by shotgunblitz

no its no typorequirments are placed in the database whit numbers and i bet they pasted the wrong number in :D

Comment by Maven24

I think there's a typo in the "Reward from" tab, it says that it's a reward for the Guild Achievement "Dungeon Diplomat" and if I recall correctly in Beta it was the reward for the Guild Achievement "Level 25".

Comment by gubugu

They've Changed it ... in Beta u got it when your guild reaches level 25But on Live you will have it when your guild earnes the achievement ''Dungeon Diplomat''

Comment by Xirifus

Actually, you can fly in capital cities.

Comment by afd111

Says guild level 25 now on live to earn it....

Comment by Zyphon

Word of caution: Do not lean back and relax- you may feel a sting followed by a swelling sensation.

Comment by bigbadhardy

This guy will teach you not slam breaks nor charge stop signs!

Comment by Twotontwentyone

If this doent say roll horde i dont know what will...

Comment by banhamito

never wanted to faction change more than right now... this mount is awesome!

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Comment by iplay4keepz

sickness.....havent played since august, but joining a guild is def #1 on the to do list when i log back in.

Comment by iberogueing

the mount is cool

Comment by DeRiss

Judging from the submitted screenshot, you carry your guilds banner while you ride it? Nice touch.

Comment by Nalai

Anyone noticed the annoying sound he produces in Org? Pisses me off when I am near the scorpion....

edit: He doesn't make the sound anymore. Blizz fixed it

Comment by DeadEyeDill1721

Good job on scorpid mount hordies….lol See you on the battlefield

Comment by Pzykotick

This thing is nothing short of F@!$ING S!CK, wish it could fly tho that would make it all the more cooler, also would really top it off it there was a dead gnome inside one of the pincers or on the stinger but otherwise AWESOME JOB BLIZZ, keep stuff like this up and I may not think so much you do is so g@y! XP_____________________________________________________________-If the tank dies, it's the healers fault.-If the healer dies it's the tank's fault.-If the DPS dies, it's their own damn fault!

Comment by bobolicous

i dont see the use of this 1500 gold for a ground mount? what character under lvl 60 has 1500 gold and what character over lvl 60 wantys to give away 1500 gold?

Comment by McHennessey

Scorpions, always a good choice.

Comment by Tempz

Does It Require Exalted? With Guild Reputation. Hopefully It Doesn't, But In My Opinion, I Doubt Blizz Would Give It Away That Easy To Low Level People That Join High Level Guilds To Get The Mount.

Comment by Iroared

There should be an achievement for getting this while only having 60% riding skill.

Comment by Xadaverous

I wonder if they alliance feel cheated at all that all they got was another cat related mount. It makes sense for them to have a lion since their logo is the face of one but come on. Redundant? The lion can't stand out that much among all the other saber cat mounts running around. The horde getting the scorpion though kinda compensates for the fact we got goblins instead of worgen.

And kudos to the hunters who get to tame the rare Sambas who is the same model as the alliance guild mount. If that doesn't say f--k you to the alliance, I don't know what does. :)

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Comment by Ja2on888

These look a lot like the Giant Scorpions in Clash of the Titans, loved them. :)

Comment by ElementsYo

Err... I don't like the position of that stinger...

Comment by Pacharoth

I'm not sure that this mount requires exaltion with your guild. The only requirment it lists is 1,500 gold and Level 25 guild achievment.

Comment by Wirxaw

Still, this guild experience is a horrible idea. You farm experience(with it's retardedly low cap) for a month or two. Get revered and halfway to exalted. Then you find that this guild is <insert reason for quit>. Or you are kicked. Or you are welcome to join any better guild. 1 month of lifetime to waste? I dont understand, if exalted reputation is only required for Dark Phoenix or this Annihilator(or future content rewards), then what's the point of refarming 2 month every time you change guild? Cant there be a convesion, like if you were at friendly - it resets. At honored - you start at friendly. And so on. There are other ways to prevent people from free-buying these mounts. Why cant blizzard make guild-rank restrictions? Like, all epic mounts are only purchasable by gm, officers and veterans(who worked for them and stayed long enough). Then no trials or casual members will get a free cookie.Just an example: I was raiding with my guild, who did fine up to 11\12. Then some of core members left, some took a break from WoW. Team nearly stopped raiding(progressively). Now I either have a choice to go to a fresh guild and start all over again, both raid-wise and guildrep-wise. Or to stay casual and wait for level25 and exalted rep.

Also by using a Potion of Illusion on another transformation(I.e. Sandstone Drake) before applying the steps leaves the illusion for its duration on the mount. With extended size.

Comment by AeroKargath

If you purchase this on horde side you can send it to your alliance toon to make the Golden King. It will show in your mailbox as the Scorpid and when you receive it in your inventory it flips. (Correction: This only currently works if you have previously faction transferred your character.)

This only works once. If you send back the scorp to horde side, it will stay a lion (and be unusable to the horde.)

While you need exalted faction with your guild to purchase the reins you do not need any faction higher than neutral to use them.

Comment by oaninor

OMG OMG OMG! I dont see the bind on account. this means that when my guild reach 25 (actually almost 23 =D ), and I get exalted with my main with them. all my low lvls toons get this cool source of awesomeness, specially my bank?. damn, starting to speed up the guild leveling as top priority! 8)

Comment by Sparklezx777

My only question is that does it save mount on the character that you are on. that way you don't have to keep on sending the mount every time you hop on another character.

Thanks

Comment by Sparklezx777

My brother says that all the time to our mom.

Comment by vedor

You can't send mail across factions.

Comment by squee666

Just to Let you guys know with Goblin Racial + Guild Perk it costs 1050G

Comment by khazri

Just reached Guild level 25 and got this mount. A few notes:

1) It is consumed on use.2) It is BoA, but even though you can send it cross-faction, it will not let you learn it.3) You can send it to other same faction alts and use it on them, even if they're not in the level 25 guild (at least at this time).

Comment by Sziraface

Wow sure am glad I'm Alliance. Oh wait no I'm not I want a scorpion not some stupid lion that pretty much everyone is going to have because blizzard is putting one with wings into the blizzard store! Thx....

Comment by kaze950

Burgy Blackheart's Handsome Hat works well with this, since you can just take it off and on for the bug. It even works with potion of illusion (I submitted a screenshot) for all sorts of bizarre possibilities.

As of 4.1, equipping Burgy Blackheart's Handsome Hat will no longer overwrite potion of illusion buffs, so unless I'm missing something, no way to take advantage of the glitch with potion of illusion.

Comment by Kongolo

I vont loinz!

not fair they get wrogens and now lions D:

/qq

Comment by wolfshark420

If you use a costume that has access to mounting and then click it off it makes your character model SUPER HUGE

so far works with:savory deviate delightDarkspear Pride

Comment by Neutralis

This mount requires you to be exalted with your guild. It costs roughly 1500 gold and binds to account. So you can buy it and send it to your other characters as long as they are in your guild too.

When mounted your character will hold a flag of your guild. He will not move while mounted like he/she does when you do emotes while you are mounted.

Hunters if you are exalted get you the rare brown Madexx in Uldum. It looks just like this mount except it doesn't have the armor on it.

When I got this mount and was riding around in Org I couldn't even count how many whispers I got. So be prepared to be spammed with questions about it. lol

Comment by xarlieb

no, it does not convert to the alliance version of the mount.

Comment by Amidakilla

The spastic sound that the scorpion made in Orgrimmar (which nearly annoys everyone) seems to be removed with patch 4.1 (Or before?). I went near it today and it was pretty silent. Thanks bliz! (At last u did something good)

Comment by Dreadmight

The mount is slightly bugged as of 4.1 on orc male characters. The banner you carry in your hand is rotated 90 degrees, so you're holding the banner like a jousting stick.

Comment by Thortok2000

Let me try to answer these and all other possible questions all in one post. (Although others have answered these questions, I'm just trying to get them all in one comment.)

You have to be Exalted with your guild to buy it.

Actual cost is 1350 gold because of the guild level 24 perk.

Like all vendor-bought items, gold disappears, not goes into guild bank. (Why would you think it would? None of the other rewards do that!)

Every mount in the game scales up to your maximum speed, now.

Like all other guild rewards, once you have it, it's yours, even if you leave the guild. Unlike battle standards which say right in the tooltip 'Requires Guild - Friendly' this mount can be used even if you're not even in a guild!

Once bought, you can mail it to any character on your account (limited by realm of course). And again, since it does not say 'Requires Guild - Friendly' this mount can be used by any character that has Apprentice Riding.

Previous to 4.1, if you mail this to an Alliance alt, they get it as a scorpion but can't use it. In Patch 4.1, mailing this to an Alliance alt converts it to a Reins of the Golden King and they can use it, regardless of guild rep.

Consumes on use, so you must buy one per character that you wish to have it.

Any more questions? =P

Comment by squee666

This is one of the Few BoA items you can sell back to a vendor once you send it cross Faction.

Get a goblin buy it for 1050gold

Send it to an alliance alt

Sell it for 375g

If you dont mind the undercutting etc its a good way to get some gold over fast.

Comment by xgdp

so horde gets a bad ass SCORPION while alliance gets a lame ass lion... very good

Comment by blamlock

Actually the medallions are unusable when you post them cross faction because of the racial restriction - it does not transform when mailed. Blizzard say this is intentional.

And once you've mailed it, the item becomes non-refundable.

Comment by doxido

Yeah, so I decided to buy this on my horde and send it to my alliance char. It all happened in patch 4.1.0

What happened is as follows:

I logged on to my alliance char to find REINS OF THE GOLDEN KING in my inbox.So yeah, I take it

THIS DOES CHANGE TO OTHER FACTION MOUNT DEPENDING ON WHO YOU SEND IT TO!

Rejoice,

Peace out, my first comment :P

Comment by Oranged

This mount requires you to be exalted with your guild. It costs roughly 1500 gold and binds to account. So you can buy it and send it to your other characters as long as they are in your guild too.

The part in bold is not true. You can send it to characters not in your guild and it works just fine. I read your comment and was concerned because I had plans on using it on a level 39. However I mailed it over to my char who is in a throw away guild (not the one where I was exalted) and the reins were learned with no issues.

Comment by hongcai14

Ah, yes Bliz, I'd love to have a mount that can...BACK STAB ME!

Comment by vargus

Final evidence that the Horde is cooler than the Alliance... cos I mean... here we are, rock you like a hurricane.

Comment by DELWebmant

The Alliance gets a normal sized lion with just some sharp teeth that we can get... The Horde gets an OVERSIZED, EPIC, SCORPION WITH HUGE CLAWS, SIX EYES THAT LOOK LIKE THEY CAN SHOOT LAZERS, AND A STINGER WITH VISIBLE POISON ON IT! Blizzard sure makes everything fair...

Comment by CoNKer180

If you send this to your alliance alt does it turn into the lion mount?

Comment by Orthis

Or Spacebar

Comment by nazgren123

The Horde gets an OVERSIZED, EPIC, SCORPION WITH HUGE CLAWS, SIX EYES THAT LOOK LIKE THEY CAN SHOOT LAZERS,...

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Comment by Jayla

Has anyone else noticed the Orgrimmar Grunts in Orgrimmar (surely not!) sometimes stop in front of the Kor'kron Annihilator beside the Guild Vendor and laugh at it?

Damn these Orgrimmar Grunts! They're all in on some inside joke we heroes are not privy too!

Comment by alicyndecay

This has to be the ugliest mount I've ever seen, especially since you can't get rid of the guild banner from it. Don't get me wrong, the fact that it's a scorpion is awesome in and of itself, but the colouring selected is terrible. I hope Blizzard decides to re-do the colour scheme and add some lighter colours, like those armored or green scorpions from Durotar :)

Sorry, but the Alliance equivalent is better than this one in terms of design.

Also, the idle animations are horrible. I won't be getting this mount even when my rep gets to exalted.

-- Jonnyäwesøme, level 85 BM/MM hunter, Bonechewer (US) server.

Comment by Bubblejet

Coolest mount in the game IMO.

I'm actually considering faction change to Horde just so I can ride on this thing....Nothing against the Alliance Golden King (still a cool mount but could use some work),but this scorpion is just so wicked looking.

Comment by Untouchable65321

You can't mail between factions.

Comment by Jakebees

If you leave your guild, do you keep this?

Comment by Merradin

yes you can stupid retard!

Comment by Djnikosburn

One of the most epic mounts!

Comment by Nebell

A question. It says "Binds to Battle.net account". I assume that if I add a second WoW account on the same battle.net account, I will be able to send this mount to the characters on that account as well?

Seems logical, but I would like a confirmation to this before I spend a lot of gold on a bunch of mounts :)

Comment by Xirifus

To be honest, I prefer dead gnomes over repairing ones any day.

Comment by CrusaderFelbane

Tank. Beats. EVERYTHING.

Comment by Skornaq

A question. If you buy this mount, I notice it has a banner for your guild tabard. But what happens if you leave your guild and mount up? Do you just fly a plain grey banner like a guildless tabard, or does the pole dissapear?

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Comment by SpectrusLegend

KOR'KRON ANNIHILATOR SUPERIOR. GOLDEN KING INFERIOR.

Comment by Wescman

MoP is coming, and mounts are going Account Wide. I made a little list of mounts, so you can show off how epic you are, starting at levels as low as 20. This list is meant for mounts you can achieve in-game without buying them from the Blizzard Store, as all of those can be used at 20. I have not included the TCG mounts, as those don't really show, "Feats of Strength" either.

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Comment by Bryrida

I wish there was a tameable scorpion model with plated claws and a saddle.

Comment by iRACKERS

When I mount this mount the standard which my toon is holding doesn't show the background (blue) which my guild tabard has on it. The standard is just a white background. same for Battle Standard of Coordination any reason for this?thanks

Comment by Dristor

At 5.0.3 update Kor'kron Annihilator have a new /mountspecial sound. Previously it has default Scorpid sound. In addition scorpid mobs also have new sounds like this.

Comment by cdsky3

I have noticed from time to time that the banner will reverse guild colors ie black background white icon to white background with black icon and boarder. Anyone know why this might be happening?

Comment by Huennin

I was happy to see in 5.1 that my Horde characters got access to this mount, even though I had only ever purchased the Alliance version, Reins of the Golden King.

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Comment by GaaraFredNorris

Seriously. The second I saw this, it was love at first sting. This is one mount that will rock you like a hurricane. No other mount gives you the same thrill. It's the official mount of any bad boys running wild. Ride mine every minute every day.

Comment by Skullhawk13

As a goblin, I never really noticed the stinger being in that much of a bad position. I'd have to stand up and violently throw myself back and up into it. I guess all of you guys are just far too large to ride it?